The Evidence for the Top Quark: Objectivity and Bias in Collaborative Experimentation

Kent W. Staley

ISBN 10: 0521827108 / ISBN 13: 9780521827102

Published by Cambridge Univ Pr, 2004

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360 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Evidence for the Top Quark: Objectivity and Bias in Collaborative Experimentation
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521827108
• ISBN 13: 9780521827102
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.7 kilograms

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Synopsis

Offering an historical and philosophical perspective on an important recent discovery in particle physics, the first evidence for the elementary particle known as the top quark, this study draws on published reports, oral histories, and internal documents. Kent Staley explores in detail the controversies and politics that surrounded the major scientific result. His book defends an objective theory of scientific evidence based on error probabilities.

Book Description

The Evidence for the Top Quark offers both a historical and philosophical perspective on an important recent discovery in particle physics: the first evidence for the elementary particle known as the top quark. Drawing on published reports, oral histories, and internal documents from the large collaboration that performed the experiment, Kent Staley explores in detail the controversies and politics that surrounded this major scientific result.At the same time the book seeks to defend an objective theory of scientific evidence based on error probabilities.